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#52Ancestors 2022 January: Foundations

Week 1 and (just in case I don't make it any further this month) the January monthly prompt is: Foundations.

"August 21, 1983, Daddy & Lissa on the family room foundation"
from the Flattery family photo collection currently in the possession of the author.

Writing this during naptime on Sunday.

My dad retired a couple years ago. My parents put their house up for sale, and it sold in two weeks. It happened so fast they had to put everything into storage because they thought they'd have a couple months to figure out next steps. I begged for the family photos and docs. 

They brought me the totes of photo books and docs in 2021. I had never seen some of this stuff! Now some of that delay was the pandemic, they spent most of 2020 with my family in Georgia while there stuff was up in Massachusetts. Some of that is they don't want anyone to have their stuff. Haha. Well I scanned what I could and look at what I found.

Dad attended Silver Lake Regional Vocational High School in Kingston, MA from 1966-1969. He was part of the carpentry track and help build these homes. Foundations to me, is a literal house foundation, with my dad, in t-shirt and jeans with a hammer hanging off his hip, sawdust on the inside of his glasses and in his beard, pencil tucked over his ear. He has worked on every east coast place I have lived from the home I was brought home from the hospital to, to the house my son was brought home to here in Georgia. His to do list when he comes up from Florida in the spring includes fixing the door to the porch, again (sorry Dad) and repainting the gazebo by the pool. He likes to stay busy but needs a task list and a budget or things go wild fast. 

Queue the dad soundtrack! Home Depot music. 

Dad's Freshman year project house 1966: 

165 Dwelley St Pembroke, MA 1966
original student program from the collection of my grandmother Miriam Dolan Flattery passed down to my father, Stephen B. Flattery.
165 Dwelley St Pembroke, MA 2019
via Google Maps street view image capture Oct 2019 accessed 01.09.22

Dad's Sophomore year project house1967: 

Franklin St Halifax, MA 1967
  original student program from the collection of my grandmother Miriam Dolan Flattery passed down to my father, Stephen B. Flattery.

After digging around Google maps & Zillow I think this Realtor dot com 2012 image of 60 Franklin St comes closest, minus the garage. The area seems to have been bought up & rebuilt or had new houses added to it. This house was demolished and a new house was built in its place, so it may not be the right address. I will have to see if Dad will take a drive over there, he remembers everything.

Dad's Junior year project house 1968:

Brewster Ave Kingston, MA 1968
original student program from the collection of my grandmother Miriam Dolan Flattery passed down to my father, Stephen B. Flattery.
I found this on Google maps once before but can't find it right now. The deck was still there.

Dad's Senior year project:
Prospect Rd Plympton, MA built 1969,
original student program from the collection of my grandmother Miriam Dolan Flattery passed down to my father, Stephen B. Flattery.
I have not located a Google image of this house today.

Of the names listed with his, the only one I can recall him talking about is Albert "Al" Burbank. 
I guess I'll have to go call Dad and ask him some questions when the boy wakes up. If I find out new info I'll update the title. 




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